The Science Of Mood, Mitochondria, and Brain Energy w/ Siobhan Mitchell
The Joe Cohen Show
The Effects of Mitochondria on Mood
The brain is the most energy intensive organ of the body, using like 20% of all oxygen. As soon as you basically have like any kind of depletion of energy, your mitochondria start to become less efficient and then everything starts to break down your brain. When I improve my mitochondria, the it improves mood in general. It's definitely one of the pathways for mood. So maybe talk a little bit more about that. You mentioned that mice who have better mitochondria have less social anxiety. That's interesting. And what's really the poem is your amygdala, your amygdala can be, you know, active all the time. But it actually has to get kind of like controlled by lots
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